Hey creeps, we had such a good time with Listener Submitted Month that we decided to extend it by a week, and boy do we regret this decision! Uwe Boll is never a good choice, but 2005’s BLOODRAYNE is a special kind of banality that only an all-star cast and a couple pounds of ketamine can provide. Watch in amazement as Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Meatloaf Aday, Michale Paré, Udo Kier, and freaking BEN KINGSLEY try to make sense of this godawful vampire flick based on the much cooler video game. For the love of all things unholy, the costume designer of this movie needs to have their skin flayed like Frank in Hellraiser for falling asleep at the sewing machine. God damn this movie sucks. Enjoy our pain on this week’s episode of Horror Movie Night!


Maniacs.. Assemble! That’s right, we return with another episode of the most illustrious podcast of the world Mat Mania! Tonight’s it’s triple threat action as Roknowledge, Neoecks and Teek Hall hold it down while lead booker Mega Ran is rapping across America on the Mt. Nerdcore Tour. Get tickets at www.megaran.com/shows

First off * SPOILER ALERT* the boys do break down Avengers End Game so if you haven’t seen it you do not want to listen from minutes 29:00 – 60:00. You have been warned. Kicking off the show is the put over segment:

ROK: New Single from Banks called “Gimmie”. Follow Banks at @hernameisbanks

Neo: Game of Thrones

Teek: Bun B & Statik Selektah’s new album “TrillStatik”

After put overs the boys jump into the epicness that is Avengers End Game and talk their favorite moments and overall thoughts on the run Marvel had with all of this. We then change pages and discuss some wrestling. The MITB PPV is starting to shape up, but did they rush some of these fueds a little too soon? The boys ask where is Daniel Bryan? ROK gives his opinion on this new gimmick for Bray Wyatt and how it’s ok for wrestling to be fun, it just can’t be stupid lol. As always Mat Maniacs we couldn’t do this without you so please join our Patreon and “Pay That Money” and get exclusive Patreon only episodes of Mat Mania!!!! www.patreon.com/matmaniapodcast

ROK’S Snack Of The Week: Snow Tha Product

Welcome to the Mat Mania Funhouse! What is that? Tune in and find out! Today Teek and Neo are joined by our Patreon supporter Gibran Meza. Want to pop in on an episode? Do like Rok says and “pay that money!” Hop on Patreon at any amount and support the show! 

Come through for some great takes and fun times. The boys are all over the place as usual, but everything is wrestling. Enjoy! 

PUT OVERS: 
Gibran – Rico Nasty – “Anger Management” 

Neo – Zapcon: https://www.zapcon.com/

Teek – Crunchyroll’s video: “Why Wrestling is Anime” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oN5dXIhnaE

and shout out to our snack or MEAL of the week: LIZZO! Her new album #CUZILOVEYOU is burning up the charts!

Rounding out Listener Submitted Month, we head to the bottom of the ocean to shoot some hoops and get sexually harassed by Daniel Stern with 1989’s LEVIATHAN! Robocop meets The Thing in the Abyss is all you need to know, but creature features with practical effects and some gnarly body horror are like abeetz (Brian’s pronunciation of pizza) – even when it’s bad, it’s still good. There are a slew of bad decisions onscreen and off, particularly in the last 2min of the film, but discussing this one bright and early at Monster-Mania while Brian lounged seductively in bed was certainly a highlight of the weekend. Say AH, mother-effers!

Which show has the charming gay? HMN, HMN, hey hey hey! That’s right, we’re back with another Listener Submitted Month movie, and are joined by the lovely Joshua from our friends at Fright School. Together, we talk about pom-poms, spanx and sex pests in the obscure slasher CHEERLEADER CAMP (1988). Is it good? Maybe? Is it bad? Sorta, but we all agreed that it was entertaining in its way. We hope your routine is memorized, sister!


Welcome your 9000 time podcast champs! And feel the power!! Welcome to the Superstar Shake-Up

edition to the Mat Mania Podcast with your regulars with name changes: Mega, Hall, Knowledge, El, and special guest family BEEEEEJ. We go into post mania shenanigans, shake up scenarios, debate how famous Hannibal Buress is, do some fantasy booking, and show lots of love. G1 and Ran share the secret story of what could have happened… as they were commissioned to create a new track for Kofi Kingston that unfortunately was turned down. Come join the us on another fun filled episode. Keep your shoulders off the mat!

PUT OVER:

Neoecks –The Act – Hulu

Rok – 25 th anniversary of Illmatic by NaS

Ran – Wendy Williams

G1 – Ultraman – Netflix

Special Thank You to our Patreon supporters! You’ve got a BIG episode coming tonight at patreon.com/matmaniapodcast!

Last month the crew went out for dinner and saw Dumbo on it’s opening night. We immediately recorded an episode before Andrew left us for a 3 week trip in Florida (more on that next month) but we decided to hold off on this for a few weeks to all you DisNeathoes time to watch the movie. So here it is (minor) spoilers and all

Anyone who says disco is dead has obviously never seen disco-spoiltation vampire flicks featuring a belly-dancing granddaughter of Dracula (Nai Bonet), a geriatric Vlad with fang dentures (John Carradine), his previous girlfriend (Yvonne DeCarlo), Brother Theodore as a rapey werewolf, a male lead that basically looks like He-Man before the sword powers, and at least one Playboy model. NOCTURNA (1979) is… something, we guess? We tackle this one live at Monster-Mania with Marissa, the other half of the Jersey Ghouls, and then turn to cartoon bats as dawn breaks. Cue funky bassline!

The road to Wrestlemania and G1 SuperCard weekend has come to an end. We are left with so many memories and experiences that will make our hearts forever full. It was quite lit.

Kofimania ran wild and emotions were at an all time high!

Please join Neo, Rok, Teek Hall, and from the Steel Cage, Cap Kaveman, have a round table discussion over all the wrestling that happened. We share how wrestling made us feel, thoughts, opinions, and like taking a swig of Rok’s spinach juice some of the disgust. But wrestling is fun, and it will keep getting better. Thank you Mat Maniacs for your continued support. We appreciate every one of you.

PUT OVERS:

Teek – Kevin Hart Netflix Special Irresponsible

Rok – healthy weight loss

Neo – The most gangster NYC Lyft Driver ever

Cap – Kingdom Hearts 3

Mega (via satellite) – SkyBlew’s album “The Universal Journey”

Andrew is on a vacation for his birthday but also doesn’t give a damn about Game of Thrones, but worry not dear listener! This week we are honored to be joined by Ashley V. Robinson of the Geek History Lesson podcast. Ashley and Brooke place various Disney characters in their appropriate Game of Thrones house and Ashley tells us about her IndieGoGo campaign for her graphic novel Aurora and the Eagle.

First, Rest in Peace Nipsey Hussle, taken way too soon from us. Stream his music, listen to his message and do your part to make things better where you are.

And now…Welcome to the crossover! It is Mat Mania x Steel Cage once again bringing you a show perfect for the season….Are we excited? What’s gonna happen? Who knows!

We go over the go home shows for WWE and predictions for NXT, WrestleMania, and G1 Supercard with our usual hilarious flair.

The Mat Mania crew will be at G1 Supercard so stay tuned for more on that at twitter: http://twitter.com/matmaniapodcast

Special thanks to our guests:

Joshua Schlag – @Schlizzag

Jared Rabinovitz – @SuperJew75

Derek Montilla – @Cap_Kaveman

PUT OVER:

Neoecks –HBO doc: Raised in the System

Rok – Joe Budden Podcast Live in LA

Derek – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Josh – Tetris 99

Jared – Formula 1 Drive to Survive 

Special Thank You to our new Patreon Mat Maniacs:

Cool Greg Gettys, Jennifer, Eva, Gibran, Zac, and Veronica & DJ Taiyouken! We appreciate you all to the fullest!

RIP NIPSEY HUSSLE (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019)

Full Moon Pictures is like the Bloodstone of cheesy horror, always dribbling out something to satisfy us at Horror Movie Night, and this week, we’re talking SUBSPECIES (1991) with Jackie of Jersey Ghouls fame! The Draculas are out in force and we sort of talk about the film while enjoying each other’s real-life company at Monster-Mania this March. Sink your fangs into our nubile, pasty flesh, we don’t mind…

We have a SPECTACULAR Episode on tap with special guest, esteemed emcee, RoQy TyRaiD. We put him on the hotseat about his beginnings, inspirations and his first wrestling memories. We put to rest the “Is The Rock Black” ridiculousness, with a deep dive exploration of racial ambiguity in wrestling, old video games, and that leads right into KOFIMANIA!!! IT’S HAPPENING! Will we get what we want this Wrestlemania? We examine conspiracy theories, the Mandela Effect yelling in a fake accent and so much more on this week’s episode!

PUT OVER:

Ran: Rockness Monsta’s one take freestyle

Teek: Erykah Badu’s “But You Cain’t Use My Phone” mixtape

Neo: The Nod Podcast

Rok: Originoo Gunn Clappaz “The Storm” album

RoQy: Tierra Whack

Mega Ran will be in the UK this week, get out there and get tickets at megaran.com

Post-apocalyptic blues got you down? What better way to cheer up than to hang out at the radio station blasting tunes and having a shopping spree at the mall?? Kelli Maroni just can’t keep away from those places, and we tagged along with her in NIGHT OF THE COMET and brought the immortal J-Tro (Jason Trost) with us! We talk 80s culture, the dangers of nostalgia, and his upcoming sequel FP2: BEATS OF RAGE. If you haven’t turned to piles of Tang already, hang out with us as we awkwardly attempt to repopulate Earth!


Why are there no porn plots where a busty lady has a rodent problem and calls an exterminator to clean up, and then when he’s done and showing her a giant rat he killed, she pays him in sexual favors? If any aspiring directors out there are into this, you gotta get someone who gives 110% every second on screen like Brad Dourif does in 1990’s Stephen King adaption GRAVEYARD SHIFT. These are our terms. In any case, it must suck to share screentime with a juggernaut like Dourif when you can barely remember your lines or what it sounds like when humans talk, and you can get a taste of that by watching everyone else in this film, as they are picked off by a gigantic rat/bat monster in delightfully gruesome ways. The Maine accents are pretty confusing, but there’s still some meat left on the bone here, so clock in for your shift with Horror Movie Night!

Wellllll it’s the BIG SHOW! Fresh off Mega Ran’s unreal appearance on Ring of Honor’s 17th Anniversary PPV, Ran and the crew give the skinny on what it was like. Ran details his run in with Bully Ray and starts the #BeatBully hashtag. Join us! Just post a video of your character beating Bully Ray in any wrestling game. 

shout out to our guests, G1 (who produced two new singles for Ran this month) and Derek Montilla of the Steel Cage Podcast.

So…What was scripted? What was not?!?! The boys chat about music, the road to Mania and so much more on this awesome episode! 

PUT OVER: Rok – our homie Ali got a Kidney transplant! Teek: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke on Netflix Derek: Above The Rim Soundtrack G1: Himself! (3 singles out this week, check those out online!) Ran: Phony Ppl (new EP out now) Neoecks: Joshua Schlag of the Steel Cage for the ride to Vegas.

Strap in because it’s about to get weird… the original plan was that we were gonna just hang out and shoot the shit for an episode. Instead Brooke and Andrew got into a deep conversation about the best snacks to get before we watch Dumbo. What’s your favorite pre-movie snack?

We are on the swerve-filled road to Wrestlemania! Come join our round table discussion about life & wrestling. Teek Hall, Roknowledge, Neoecks, and special guest G1. We discuss our feelings on WWE and how things are progressing towards Wrestlemania.

Did Ronda insult your intelligence? Will KofiMania happen? Let us know your thoughts! Thank you for your continued support. And a very extra special thank you to our Patreon supporters. We will have more content for you guys. When life give you a choke slam and you have a MatMania tee on, you receive +10 kick out to keep your shoulders off the mat.

PUT OVER
Teek – Batman vs TMNT: animated movie
Rok – Widow TV series
Neo – Gettin On (HBO TV series)
G1 – Power Rangers TV series

Thank you once again special Mat Maniac Patreons. We cannot thank you enough for your support and and continued dedication to the brand. It is because of you we will be headed to ROH 17th Anniversary show in Sam’s Town Hotel in Las Vegas. We will be sure to bring you exclusive stories, and content. Please let us know what you want with your support. We want to ensure we are giving you the best value. We love you all and we will drink a few for you. Cheers.

Do you love spirit possessions? How about ninjas? How about V8 sex?? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, or hell, even if you haven’t, you’re in for a ride with us this week as we discuss the 1984 action/horror/kung fu/aerobics extravaganza NINJA lll: THE DOMINATION! The hairspray and rouge are in full force, as this specific possessed katana imbues its wielder with some serious eyeliner skills. This film has to be seen to be believed, and your boys have got the play by play to keep you jazzercising the black ninja at bay. But beware, we don’t USE soda!

We talk a lot about the diminishing returns of horror sequels, but the Leprechaun series is easily one of the worst offenders. Exhibit A: 1996’s abysmal LEPRECHAUN4: IN SPACE. It’s not even fun bad, it’s just…low effort and cheap. I mean, the writers didn’t even take the time to make Warwick Davis’s lines rhyme! But never fear, your trusty tour guides through the shadowy world of questionable horror will take you by the hand and at least bring a bit of good out of this flaming dumpster fire of a flick. That’s the Kelly luck o the Irish for ye this St. Paddy’s!

Once again back is the incredible!!!! That’s right MatManiacs, we are back with another edition of your favorite podcast! This week it is a triple threat as Roknowledge, Teek Hall and The Neoecks hold it down while lead booker Mega Ran is out Mega Ranning! The boys break down the week in wrestling and what a week it was!!!! We talk Michael Jackson and give all praise to Samoa Joe. This is the go home show to this Sundays PPV event Fastlane and tings definitely escalated on both RAW and Smackdown! Before diving into the week in wrestling the boys started things off with the put over segment: 

Neo – Game of Thrones 

ROK – Roq’y Tyraid’s “Get Right Freestyle” on Power 98.3 where he proceeded to decimate the mic and put rappers on notice!!!! 

Teek – Doom Patrol 

After that the boys pay talk a little hip-hop and a bit about the upcoming release of Captain Marvel. Following that we get into some wrestling news and talk about the passing of King Kong Bundy, Tommaso Ciampa’s neck injury which will unfortunately lead into him having to relinquish the NXT title, and then we get into both RAW and Smackdown, the reunion (for the LAST time) of the Shield, ROK asks for a wellness check on Lio Rush after getting Braun Strowman’d into the wall and ROK asks if Ronda’s promo from Monday was her best yet. We switch to Smackdown and Teek is ready to talk Samoa Joe ending R-Truths title reign and we talk Andrade and Rey getting the Fastlane Pre-Show treatment. Lastly it wouldn’t be the go home show without the boys predicting and doing a little fantasy booking! 

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